Preface to Poetry Author:Robert Hawkins Preface to Poetry offers the novice an introduction to the patterns that poetry creates. Avoiding the confusion that can arise from studying a mass of verse, the author presents the texts of twenty-five poems, carefully selected to illustrate the historical evolution of and the structural differences between such poetic forms as the ballad; the... more » epic; the narrative verse; the sonnet and the lyric, light, and free verse.
Assuming little or no previous experience with or exposure to critical analysis of poetry, Mr. Hawkins introduces and follows each poem with lucid commentaries explaining the poetic principles inherent in each.
Works by Coleridge, Kipling, Frost, Tennyson, Browning, Poe, Shakespeare, Keats, Wordsworth, Millay, Donne, Eliot, Aiken, and Robinson« less